Tuskegee Veterans Hospital and Its Black Physicians

Description:

"When the Tuskegee Veteran's Hospital opened in 1923, many in the Veteran's Bureau believed black physicians and nurses were not competent to staff the facility. With the exception of nurses' aides, orderlies, attendants and laborers, hospital personnel would be white. This history of the hospital reflects the struggle for racial equality in the U.S"--

subjects: Veterans, medical care,  Tuskegee institute,  African American veterans,  Medical care,  History,  African American physicians,  Military hospitals,  Veterans Hospitals,  African Americans,  Physicians,  Veterans,  History, 20th Century,  Anciens combattants noirs américains,  Soins médicaux,  Histoire,  Médecins noirs américains,  Médecine,  Tuskegee Veterans Hospital